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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Ozo

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A direct arsenic name.

In the book. Arsaneck identifies a sublimed arsenic preparation, whereas Arsenicum has a wider historical gloss involving metallic flashing and salts.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 37; facsimile PDF page 365.

Historical Definition

Ozo is arsenic.

Meaning

The dictionary supplies the material equivalent without a further qualification of color, mineral form or preparation.

Use in the Book

Arsaneck identifies a sublimed arsenic preparation, whereas Arsenicum has a wider historical gloss involving metallic flashing and salts. These comparisons help the reader retain Ozo’s unqualified identification while noticing qualifications and different uses elsewhere in the vocabulary.

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Arsaneck. An arsenic preparation distinguished by sublimation.

Arsenicum. A broad technical name whose gloss includes metallic flashing and salts.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 37; facsimile PDF page 365 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Ozo; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 365; compare Arsaneck, Arsenicum

See also. Arsaneck; Arsenicum

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About This Reading Edition

The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

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Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.